“With the majority of the truck traffic in Wisconsin going through the Zoo or Marquette interchanges, increasing capacity and safety along the East-West Corridor linking them is not only a regional mobility concern but also a statewide economic concern.”

“There are 21,000 businesses, 310,000 jobs and 540,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the heart of the East-West Corridor, and it is in the state’s best interest to keep this project on track. Failure to do so would hurt Wisconsin now and have negative consequences that will reverberate throughout the entire state economy for years to come.”

“As a retired dairy farmer and member-owner of Foremost Farms USA, our town, county, and state roads are important in getting our product to market, equally important is the interstate highway system in Milwaukee in getting member milk from Michigan to our cheese plant in Appleton. Routinely 50 trucks a day haul milk through this corridor.”

“In Wisconsin, most of our interstates were built in the 1950s and 1960s. The undeniable fact of the matter is they have reached the end of their service lives and need to be reconstructed. Because of the cost and massive scope of the undertaking, planning for this effort began more than a decade ago. For the sake of not just the region but the health of the entire state’s economy, they must proceed.”